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The app's usefulness depends on the language. The issue is - it provides NO grammar explanations. At all. Which can be a huge problem. So, lets take Estonian for example. Ideally, you need to learn 3 forms of each word, as they can differ greatly to the point that without that knowledge you might not even recognise you're looking at different forms of the same word. Like, "mees / mehe / meest" is the same word in different cases. Drops won't tell you that. And its not even the worst example, just average. There are like 15 cases or so, and without knowing at least the 2nd case form of the word, you won't be able to use all the others correctly. And again, Drops won't tell you that. ___________ Its way more useful for languages like English, where the word generally has an immutable base and little to no suffixes. So if you learn one form of a word in English, you can use it in sentences no problem. Not the case in Estonian at all, learning just 1 form is not that useful.

The actors don't count because they can only sound like a native speaker when they read lines written by a native speaker and they are told exactly how to say the lines they can't sound like a native speaker at all times. So even if actors can sound like native speakers it doesn't mean a person who is not an actor can sound like a native speaker. You say that people that aren't actors can sound like a native speaker but you didn't show any examples of that.

The actors don't count because they can only sound like a native speaker when they read lines written by a native english speaker and they are told exactly how to say the lines they they can't sound like a native speaker at all times.

I'm moving from the mass immersion camp to the speak [late] speak often camp because I personally need to speak more to get my brain to pull out the language that's in my head faster, but yeah I just had a lecture with Professor Rob Waring (one of the world's most prolific TESOL researchers) and he told everyone in class "if you don't push your students towards getting mass input you should feel guilty" lmao. His reasoning for mass input is precisely the forgetting curve. People will start to forget what they learn in a lesson (and Duolingo is just a series of lessons) within an hour after the lesson is finished.

They tell you it only goes up to A1 if you're expecting anything else past that then sure, it's disappointing.

They say over and over that comprehensible input is the way to learn the language. But the language is not comprehensible from the beginning. That's why people go to skill building route. It just fast tracks you to things being a little more comprehensible. Instead of just listening to flapping mouth noises, hoping you eventually make sense of them.

I have decided to delete Duolingo. As a consumer, it is very annoying to see the app become less effective for free users with every update. Rather than adding new features for paid users, the Duolingo team has focused their efforts on taking away features from free users. Daily challenges went from costing 10 gems to 30 gems to 100. It is to the point that winning a tournament/placing at the top of your league without Duolingo super isn't even conceivable. The paywall has ruined the experience for me

+17,000 EXP the 1st place. These people are crazy. I thought I was crazy, and I am but dude come on how in the world hahahahaha😅😂😂

Maybe trying to journal in tbe target language could be helpful. At least substituting a word here or there with the target language version of it if you cannot form a full sentence in that language.

You're speaking too fast

Does this work with the tuornament

Something unexpected I learned with this video: Apparently people think Australians don't soeak English 😅 By the way, I'm from Chile and people also doubt that I speak Spanish because of my accent (it's my MOTHER TONGUE!!)

Duolingo is a kind of animated quiz. It is not a language tutorial, without a vocabulary, grammar or even a language translator.

There’s this person named June in my league who has 15k EXP 💀

I give the test without knowing,I have scored A1 😂

I've watched all of your other videos at some point, so this video keeps getting recommended to me. Today, I said screw it and watched. This was so much better than all of the productivity experts' "just get up" advice. Thanks!

It's crazy how many of your videos include a moment where you tell night owls they don't exist. It actually kind of pisses me off.

I find that listening to an audio book while mowing my grass is a perfect time to practice in a low stakes scenario while also protecting my ears.. haha

Home is where the cat is -Ukrainian Duolingo

Around 16:20 #20 I was thinking, for complete beginners, maybe it could work to do the inverted version where you highlight the words you actually know and recognise.. then you could print out a paragraph of info on a topic you want to understand and once the entire chunk of text is like glowing in highlighter, you've succeeded :)

I wish it was easy to edit videos like that 10:40 ~

They hide the languages in Disney+ as well :(

Pro tip, for more pitch accent (or accent I general) go to the west of Sweden. The closer to Norway, the more you get.

ok, i am 65 years old , no life, do not work and doing fuck all, I am in duolingo only to keep my brain cell still moving and yes, i am in the diamond league and i am planning to stay there as long as i can, thanks for your suggestion, i am going to try it ,with love xx

native english speaker learning spanish as a second language. I chose spanish because my country borders Mexico and approximately 20% of people in the US speak spanish as a first or second language. Also, spanish is the 4th (I think) most commonly spoken language (thus I'd be able to communicate with a larger volume of people) and I'd like to travel across the rest of The Americas and so spanish would be helpful. Its also supposed to be relatively easy for an english speaker to learn spanish due to the large volume of cognates. That being said.... I've tried numerous methods ....all traditional and it made me feel like a complete idiot after spending two years, on and off, and relatively little to show for the effort (flashcards for vocabulary and memorzing verb conjugation tables). I've recently started the comprehensible input method and simply focused listening and watching of videos....and I feel like I've made more progress in a few weeks than I did in the last couple of years. I actually think that I did slowly learn things over those two years but with the comprehensible input...its triggering something in my head or perhaps I am now actually using knowledge that I gained. The superbeginner CI is easy for me to understand and even the beginner level is relatively easy. I picked up an A2 level ebook and I can get through it relatively easy...the words I don't yet know aren't a limit because I can guess their meaning from the context. I wish I had used watching simple target language videos from day one.

This is a great point ...and perhaps thanks to you and users like you, that were not holding back and shared this frustration with keeping a streak, Duolingo changed their ways. There is something called "Freeze" that automatically saves my streak if I don't make it. It is given to me (I don't have to purchase it) . I think this feature gets updated once you are a longer-term user (like over 365 days). That is just my deduction. Anyway, Duolingo is not perfect, but it is definitely enjoyable. The Streak mania can be avoided these days. Otherwise, I would quit like you a long time ago. Keeping the days counted helps me to have a healthy competition with my daughter who tries to stay ahead of me, thus doing her Spanish with a more willing heart. :) Again, thanks for sharing your rightful frustration that made perhaps things better.

I'm Swedish so Swedish is my native language but due to speaking so much English online (and I've noticed this with several people my age) I tend to forget Swedish words and use English ones instead, sometimes even using English grammar whilst speaking Swedish. One thing I did just today was talking to my dad about the seeds in a fruit. In Swedish seeds in fruits have their own word (kärnor) whilst other seeds are called frön. Since I tend to think in English now and English only having one word for seeds I ended up using frön instead of kärnor...

As a fellow language enthusiast who happens to make their living as a professional 3D Animator (yes, it's the best job ever) I just enjoy the hell out of how much love Lamont has for The Spiderverse movies. (and Animation in general ♥♥♥) And he is correct btw. The amount of effort and skill put into making Into The Spiderverse is way above the norm. It literally made animation history and was regarded as THE modern masterpiece in the industry. Until Across the Spiderverse came out that is. Somehow the team at Sony Imageworks managed to surpass themselves. If anyone here happens to be interested in making movies (not just animation. just, movies. fullstop.) just watch and analyse the crap out of Across The Spiderverse. I'm not kidding. I'm senior enough to have become a teacher now too and this is one of the first things I tell my students. Its literally a masterclass in pretty much everything. just sayin... 🙃

With netflix of course you can download the movies and listen to the audio of the shows/movies. But it opened up a new world for me when I realized I could record the audio of shows/movies I watch on other streaming services of which I can't download onto my phone.

at least its correct grammar even it has funny example😂

Whomever said you could not watch a Spiderman movie 50 times, has not heard of The Rocky Horror Picture Show phenomenon. 300 times was normal for that cult fave..

"My name is Bond, James Bond." -Turkish Duolingo

Pro tip for people who can't find the language in their country on Netflix and don't have a VPN,, if you switch your account language to the language you're learning, then it'll be an available option(you just need to have enough of the basics to still navigate with the account language switched),,, I'm in Canada and did it with Korean,, it works great Edit, he mentioned it a couple minutes later in the video, lol

russian + russian subtitles feels very weird i mean there is so muche word in this languagues (like 20+ variations for any verbs or even word) even when you translate you steel don't understand sometimes lol

I used Duolingo for one year and made it only 1/3 through Spanish. Locals were impressed with my level of Spanish. I can do about 30min to 45 min of small talk...if I tell them to speak slowly and in the tenses that I know. I've now added other resources but I find a retain vocab really well with Duo. Listening, not so much. I'm starting to do podcasts and dreaming Spanish for that. My texting ability is decent, I'm finding I have to translate a lot less. I tried using other methods, I didn't make it that far so for me, probably without duo I'd still know nothing. I'm probably not the person to be able to follow a jet plain for language. I guess I need to walk slowly for a long while before I have the confidence to try material that is a bit more demanding.

I'm getting more and more the sense that this is just an ad for Bridgeton. But anyway great video, I'll guess I'll check out Bridgeton. Also I just realised that I do know a movie I could watch! The Truman show! I've seen it so many times in English already. Förresten, jag har inte sett tv serien. Men Björnstad är en riktigt bra bok och jag tycker att du borde läsa den om du inte har gjort det redan. Kanske faller den dig i smak. Brukar själv alltid läsa böcker på engelska men då det finns en riktigt bra bok som faktiskt originellt är skriven på Svenska, då fan. En annan grej, lite ur säsong just nu men, Kalle ankas jul. Obligatorisk jultittning, varje julafton klockan ett. Om du inte har sett den ännu så har du en lucka i din allmänbildning.

My mom immigrated to the US from Samoa and I spent much of my youth reading out my aunt's texts in Samoan to my mom while she was driving. I was never taught the language, but I heard my mom talk to her sisters in Samoan for hours every day. I'm now across the country and trying to learn the language on my own, and already knowing how to pronounce everything is definitely an advantage. Sometimes I'll read a common phrase and can hear my mom saying it in my head! Learning Samoan is mostly difficult because there aren't nearly as many resources out there, and most of the audio I hear now is from songs and MAYBE a Samoan radio station (I say maybe cus last time I tried listening, they were just playing American songs:( )

Impressed not just with his thoughts on language learning, but using his experience with music to draw such a clear connection to how it is learned. Thank you for your service to the industry with this one!

I just love the fact that you even bothered to learn our small and unsignificant language. And then at this level! It's great

Great video as always!! I usually never comment on yt videos but i just need to now. Ive been trying Language Transfer, an amazing app which teaches u languages in a different way. It teaches languages using linguistic logic. Its been a real eye opener for me. This app is run by 1 person and is struggling to get the exposure it deserves. If you would try the app and give it some reach it would be truly amazing. Im afraid the app will eventually stop if it doesnt get the attention it deserves as its 100% free. Im not affiliated with them at all but just someone enjoying the app and i think you could have an interesting take on its method! ❤

people saying you can't watch something 50, 100 or even 1000 times have never met a child before! honestly, even as an adult, i've seen dinotasia almost forty times all the way through. if you like something enough, you'll be able to watch it until it's engrained in your memory forever.

yeah, i'm 20 and a man, and i fucking love Bluey 😂 it's honestly a very wholesome and funny show, and it's available in like a kajillion languages. the episodes are really short and i find them quite a good starting point for beginner stages of learning 😊

I watched Nyad in Spanish about 20 times and could watch it 20 times more, I absolutely love that film.

I like Duolingo and I do think that it has helped me learn German and I have seen improvement from using it. I am however in a unique position, as my wife is a first generation American born to German parents and my wife actually spoke German only until she started school and had to learn English and she taught her parents English. I also live in an area of South Alabama where MANY Germans lived and worked frequently during the 90s and I have a neighbor who recently moved here from Hamburg. I took German in highschool and I have and have had access to native German speakers and I have the advantage of having people to practice German with in my life. My wife and I have litterally spoken only in German when I stopped at the grocery store on the way home from work and I don't think I've ever had a single conversation in English with my German neighbor. For me, I just need a vocabulary and sentence structure app. I would be open to trying a better app now. I simply had nothing else to compare Duolingo to. For me it's been helpful, but I'd like to try any better option available. Thanks for this video. I just have nothing to compare Duolingo to, except for highschool German classes and German lessons on audio tapes. Yes, I'm old.

Grammar study is more important further into language learning. Thats why kids start with picture books and not grammar worksheets.

Could anyone tell me the name of the movie they talk about at 14:07?

I am learning Deutsch! And duolingo goes “Mein Mitbewohner ist meinen Hund” i love it!

What the hell happened to Duo? it feels like a shitty cell phone game now

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